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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
LOS ANGELES – A statement was issued by the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival in honor of renowned Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, who passed away at 96 Last week. The full statement follows:
“If you were alive in the 60s and 70s in Greece, it would have been impossible not to know – and be impassioned by – the forbidden songs of Mikis Theodorakis. Then, the younger generations knew him as the giant composer who was always involved in politics and was a proponent of world peace and social justice. In short, Theodorakis is integral to the modern Greek identity. His loss on September 3rd, in his Athens home gazing at the Parthenon, took the whole population by surprise. Even though he was already 96 and his health was failing, no one expected the degree of pain that his sudden absence would cause. It was, it is, the kind of pain that an orphaned child feels.
“The television, radio and internet waves filled with sounds from his life, his voice and music. Athens became – albeit temporarily – a live memory, pulsating with history, with the unforeseen emergence of our collective ideals and values. And with that awakening came the bitterness of loss. Yet, what is gained from a remembrance as profound as this one is the realization that nothing else matters – no wealth or misery, no personal success or failure, no accolades or condemnation – nothing matters but the safekeeping of the immaterial world we call identity. An identity that is not defined by either borders or politics, but one that is defined by a life-affirming journey through thousands of years.”
Theodorakis was honored by LAGFF with an Orpheus Award in 2011 for his lifetime achievement.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.